As of the time of this writing, the NYPD has not returned a request for comment to The New York Times. Yesterday alone saw 80 people arrested during the march, and with the so-called “media blackout” over, the attention given to “Occupy Wall Street” has turned in the protesters’ favor. With the release of this second video, showing what appears to be excessive police force (an earlier video Wednesday showed a man being pulled through the streets by the police), public sympathy will most certainly be on the side of the women, not the NYPD, which is why someone in the police department needs to issue a statement about the footage, and fast.

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I wonder why they were pinned up in the first place. All I ask is people think. This is an awful thing to see and is most definitely police brutality. However, if I were captured in a video of just me punching a random harmless looking guy in the face and not the 30 seconds before where the same guy sexual assaulted my girlfriend, i’m pretty sure i’d be viewed as the bad guy too for defending my girlfriend.

There are other videos that run up to right before this one. The women were walking down the sidewalk and stopped by the officers. They asked repeatedly why they were being stopped, where the cops wanted them to go (“Do you want us to go into this garage?”) and reminding the police that they were lawfully walking down the sidewalk–NOT the steet– and the cops were silent. As they were being kettled, police tackled a photographer and the women started chanting “shame shame shame!” in response. Finally, a women was pulled to the ground and pulled BY HER HAIR from the sidewalk to the street under the barrier as the officer with the pepper spray approached, sprayed the girls, quickly turned, and walked off.

I am so disgusted by everything I have seen the cops do to these innocent people!! What a joke these cops are!! Why do we even have cops? All they are are bullies with guns and protection from the law! Go do your job and arrest murderers and rapists. WTF are these people doing that is so wrong?

There they go at it again. The police wanting to cover something up….
By taking there BRUTALITY videos off the internet. These police
beatings been going on for years….. and years …. From state… to
state …. from community… to community….and in my community since i
was a child. I witness People , friends beaten to a pulp. for no reason
at all . Certain People are finally seeing it now. And the police dont
want the truth exposed. what they been doing for years. I can go on, and
on, why this is happening … 1st of all: There trained that way, There
the biggest gang ever license to kill. if you dont have a badge and not
above the law like them . You are looked at , as there ENEMY ! Also
lots of city younger cops are working out in gyms. taking Steroids,
TRUST ME ITS A KNOWN FACT ! if you really look at them there so
agitated and cocky pumped up, on steroids.when there beating some one.
there so out of control they cant even stop. usually another cop has to
stop it . They should be drug tested… And the scary part of this is
? The POLICE don’t even realize we are all pawns in ONE BIG CHESS
GAME… for the SUPER RICH to control this world. and take all our FREEDOMS AWAY!!!! This has been written in books along time ago. And now we see it truly happening. its a cancer that will spread if we don’t stop it .
And poeple are trying too and getting beatings from the police for it.
These same police would of been the ones to put JESUS on a cross.(IM
NOT TRYING TO BE RELIGIOUS>>>> BUT ….. AMERICA PLEASE WAKE
UP !!!!!!!

This is unacceptable. These people have the right to be there. Show me in what legal decision, that any part of the constitution has caveats of any kind to local or state governments regulations for regular public space.